Acknowledgments

I very much thank Philipp W. Kutter and Alfonso Pierantonio for their collaboration and fruitful discussions which had a great influence in the design and implementation of XASM. I also like to thank Yuri Gurevich and Egon Börger for their interest in my work presented in this paper and for always helping me solving the right problems. My dearest special thanks go to Asuman Sünbül. Her work in the field of component-based software engineering has very much influenced the component model presented in this paper.